Although the clinical complications of atherosclerosis do not usually occur until adulthood, it is now appreciated that the underlying arterial pathology begins much earlier. Over the last two decades, there…
Communication between the cardiologist and providers of primary care is an essential component of the medical care of the patient, and is of increasing importance in the current era, which…
Kawasaki disease was first described in 1967, by a Japanese paediatrician, Tomisako Kawasaki. 1 He characterised the illness, then termed mucutaneous lymph node syndrome, as including high fever, non-exudative conjunctivitis,…
Most children born with congenitally malformed hearts now survive to adult life, as a result of the spectacular achievements of paediatric cardiology and surgery over the past half-century. This has…
An abnormally positioned heart is not in itself a malformation of major significance. The exceptions are the extreme examples of exteriorisation of the heart, usually described as ectopia cordis ,…
Holes between the ventricles can occur as isolated anomalies, but are also seen in association with many other defects. For example, they are found as integral parts of entities such…
Cardiac tumours in infants and children are rare. Their atypical clinical presentation prevented timely diagnosis in the past, when cardiac tumours were often a postmortem finding. The widespread use of…
It has become evident that primary myocardial disease represents one of the more neglected aspects of heart disease today. It is often overlooked or misdiagnosed; in addition, it is frequently…
In this chapter, we will address the various congenital coronary arterial anomalies that may be found in the otherwise structurally normal heart. The coronary arterial circulations found specifically with major…
Rheumatic fever is an acute, diffuse, and non-suppurative inflammatory disease that occurs in susceptible individuals as a late complication after an untreated pharyngotonsillitis, the infection itself sometimes being asymptomatic. It…
